3 firms win contest to help Kaiser design greener hospital

Kaiser 's "Small Hospital, Big Idea" design contest -- the first effort in the health care industry to open-source innovation -- has yielded winning concepts from three companies that specialize in sustainable architecture. Contest winners Aditazz , Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch and Perkins+Will , whose selection was announced this morning, will now help the health care giant design a small, 100-bed hospital -- mostly likely in Southern California -- with a net-zero environmental impact and a target date for ground-breaking within the next five to eight years. "We did not expect that we would have tie winners," said John Kouletsis, Kaiser Permanente's vice president for facilities planning. "But we have phenomenal teams here. Together they will come up with a hybrid solution that will go leagues beyond what each team would do individually and way beyond where Kaiser would hav...